Garment-drier rack



Patented Aug. 19, 1924.

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GARMENT-DRIER RACK.

Application filed September 19, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that ROBERT S. ToWNLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, has invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Drier Racks, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient rack particularly designed for the use of lumbermen in camp as a means of conveniently and effectively exposing socks and like garments to the stove or campfire for the purpose of drying the same, and in this connection to provide a device which may readily be folded into compact form for transportation; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of arts of which a preferred embodiment is siown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a rack embodying the invention in its operative position.

Figure 2 is a similar view of the rack in its folded condition.

Figure 3 is a detail transverse sectional view of a portion of the rack adjacent to the joint between the leaves or sections.

The rack consists of a plurality of leaves hingedly connected at their adjacent edges as indicated at 11 to adapt them to be folded into parallel and compact relation and also provided on the pintle of the hinge with an upstanding eye 12 to serve as a means of suspending the rack when desired from a supporting hook or nail. At their outer edges the leaves of the rack carry depending legs or standards 13 and detachably connected with the leaves also near their outer edges are braces 14 which in the construction illustrated are provided at their upper ends with openings 15 to engage pegs 16 on the leaves.

To hold the leaves in their extended relation and substantially in a common plane a slide bolt 17 is mounted upon one of the leaves for engagement with keepers 19 on the other leaf. The retraction of this bolt obviously will permit of the folding of the leaves to occupy the position indicated in Figure 2 so that transportation from camp to camp is facilitated.

The leaves may be made of any suitable material but are preferably solid so as to afford a reflecting surface to the end that when the rack is placed close to a stove or Serial No. 589,265.

iire with the garments suspended adjacent to or in contact with the surface facing the stove or fire the heat is concentrated on the garments and serves to quickly dry the same, and to the end that the socks or like garments may thus effectively be supported by the rack the latter is provided with horizontally arranged pairs of pegs 20 in addition to pegs 16 from all of which are suspended longitudinal straps 21 having holes 22 which are engaged with the pegs.

These straps are respectively provided with a plurality of hooks or spurs 28 upon which the socks or other garments may be individually suspended and thereby exposed to the heat with the adjacent backing or refleeting surface afforded by the solid leaves of the rack.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. A garment drying rack having foldably connected leaves and supports for maintaining the same in an upright position, and garment engaging hooks carried by said leaves adjacent to that face which is adapted to be exposed to the radiation from a heating device.

2. A garment drying rack having foldably connected leaves and supports for maintaining the same in an upright position, and garment engaging hooks carried by said leaves adjacent to that face which is adapted to be exposed to the radiation from a heating device, said leaves being hingedly connected for folding into parallel relation and being provided with means for maintaining them in their extended position.

3. A garment drying rack having foldably connected leaves and supports for maintaining the same in an upright position, and garment engaging hooks carried by said leaves adjacent to that face which is adapted to be exposed to the radiation from a heatin device, the supporting means consisting of upright legs or standards and braces and being supplemented at the upper edge of the rack by a hanger.

a. A garment drying rack having foldably connected leaves and supports for maintaining the same in an'upright position, and garment engaging hooks carried by said leaves adjacent to that face which is adapted to be exposed to the radiation from a heating device, the leaves being of solid construction to provide a heat reflecting surface adjacent to the garmentssuspended thereon.

A garment drying rack having foldaloly connected leaves and supports for maintaining the same in an upright position, and garment engaging hooks carried by said leaves adjacent to that face Which isadapted to be exposed to the radiation from a heating device, the leaves being provided With surface pegs and longitudinally disposed straps being suspended from said pegs and having the garment engaging hooks attached 10 thereto.

In testimony whereof he aflixes his signature.

- ROBERT S. TOWNLEY. 

